It was a beautiful spot that Cisco had found, but it made a lot of them nervous. There was a large chasm, complete with a rushing river underneath and trees and grass sprouting on either side. It would have been a nice place to sit and have a picnic (or a post-engagement celebration), but that wasn't what they were there for.

Only the families and Cisco made it to the location. The rest of the team stayed behind because they didn't have powers, or just didn't want to come and decided to keep an eye on the city while they were gone.

"Ooh, hooray!" Cisco said, tossing a ball of paper into the gorge and watching it fall. "Didn't look as deep on the map."

"You do recall that maps are flat, right?" Peter asked, unable to believe he had to clarify that statement.

Barry looked down the cliff and sighed. "This thing is, like, a thousand feet deep."

"Yeah, you just got engaged; I think the jumping off cliffs stage comes a few years after marriage," Bobby quipped, earning a smack on the shoulder from Caitlin. "Ow!"

"Keep talking like that, and you won't make it to the age of marriage," Caitlin dared her cousin.

"Okay, I get it, too soon." Bobby shrugged and rubbed his arm.

"How is it you are made of ice, yet you cry in pain from a light smack?" Peter questions.

"I am not constantly in my ice form." Bobby defended.

"If you want to get faster," Cisco reminded him, striding away from the edge and over to their tent, where Caitlin and Wells were setting up monitors. "Plummeting to your death is just the motivation you need."

Caitlin wasn't quite sure about his logic, but she let it slide. Wells moved toward Barry with his calculations. "So, to reach the speed I need, you're going to have to go... this fast." He showed Barry the paper, and Barry's eyebrows shot up.

"Yeah, well, that's impossible," he said, puffing out a breath of air.

"Ah ah ah!" Wells held up his pencil wisely. "Nothing in life is promised except death."

Barry smirked. "Edgar Allen Poe?"

"Kanye West." Wells shot back.

"Kanye West is on your Earth?" Peter was surprised by how many similarities there were between their worlds.

"If it makes you feel any better," Cisco called, interrupting their not-so-encouraging conversation as he walked over. "Evel Knievel cleared a line of cars that was twice this long, and he didn't even have superpowers. Unless you count that sweet ride..."

Bobby gave him an incredulous glance. "Do you even hear yourself? This is a genuine question."

Cisco patted Barry on the arm through his glove. "Look," he said. "You're gonna be fine. I'm 80% sure of it."

"Oka-"

"76." Cisco interrupted, unable to help himself. Harry motioned a hand across his throat, clearly telling him to stop. "Like a strong 72, I can't stop, Caitlin, please help."

Put on the spot, Caitlin gave Barry a wince. "If you don't feel ready, you probably shouldn't do it," she said.

Cisco glared at her. "Not helpful."

Maybe it wasn't. But Caitlin didn't really feel like losing her fiancé of just a few hours to a giant ditch filled with water.

Barry made eye contact, reading her thoughts, as he always did. "Look, Zoom's still out there," he said. "And once I find a way back to Earth-2, I have to be faster than him." She nodded tightly, taking a deep breath. Barry's eyes grew darker. "Right now... I wasn't even fast enough to save Jay." He paused for a moment, gathering himself. "I have to try."

Turning toward the chasm, Barry rubbed his hands together and pulled up his cowl. His feet found purchase on the gravelly ground as Caitlin, Cisco, and Wells all gathered their supplies.

Moving into a runner's position, Barry placed his hands on the ground. He took a few deep breaths and then was moving, sprinting over the ground and jumping into the air after only a second of lightning.

Barry continued to run through the air, his legs pumping furiously as he neared the far edge of the chasm. Caitlin's face bloomed into a smile. "He's gonna make it!"

Then he started to fall.

Armed with lightning still surrounding him, Barry missed the edge of the building by only a few yards and began to plummet to his death.

"No!"

Caitlin and Peter screamed, running toward him. Caitlin looked down the pit. But Peter was the first to react; he leaped down and shot a web net to catch his brother. Caitlin's breath gushed out of her in one thank-God blast, and her legs wobbled with relief.

"Thanks." Barry sighed in relief.

"Web nets," Peter said with a sigh of relief. "Gotta love 'em."

Peter then got up and shot a web to yank them both up. When they got back up to the ground, Barry gave Caitlin a half-relieved, half-guilty smile. She ran up and hugged him as soon as he was safely on the ground, and he squeezed her tightly.

Then she pulled back and hit him in the chest as hard as she could. "That's for being rash." She hit him again.

"Hey!" Barry exclaimed, with a smile and a laugh on his face.

"That's for scaring me," Caitlin said, then she kissed him. "And this is for still being alive."

"Shouldn't you technically kiss me, then?" Peter said thoughtfully as Cisco began packing up. "Ya know. Because I saved him?"

Bobby just rolled his eyes at him. "Come on."

"What?" said Peter. "I'm just saying." He shrugged. "If it weren't for me, he would have been flushed away."


"And in later news, Reed Richards deemed that he and his comrades, including his wife, Susan Storm, her brother Johnny Storm, and long life best friend Ben Grimm, were not affected by the cosmic rays. Promising that there were no ill effects to their contact with the cosmic radiation."

Angelica and Jesse were at STAR Labs when they watched the news of the spacecraft returning to Earth. They saw the astronauts exiting the ship and waving to the crowd. They were also eating some food, which was Chinese they got delivered to them and charged to Star Labs.

"Wait, Reed Richards?" Jesse was shocked when she heard that name.

"As in the Maker?" Angelica asks when there was a flash of lighting. Barry walked into the room and had already placed his suit up. "How'd it go?" He didn't answer her and kept going. "That bad?"

"He's not a splat on the side of the mountain," Peter commented as he walked into the room.

Barry couldn't seem to let go of his failure to reach the other side of the chasm. "I know I can crack this." He said confidently. "I've just been going about it the wrong way; I need to find my leg up." Struck with a sudden idea, he turned to Harry. "Have we factored in drag? Wells, can we rerun the simulation?"

"Let it go for now." Wells all but growled.

Barry's face tightened. "Zoom is still out there," he said quietly. "He's terrorizing a whole world full of people...your world. I'm not doing this for fun."

Sensing that the situation could begin to get out of hand, Caitlin cut in. "Barry... we've been working on this all week. You're tired; We're tired."

"Not to mention, we never got to really celebrate the fact you guys got engaged," Peter stated as he gestured to the newly engaged couple.

"Yeah," said Cisco, picking up her slack and nodding through a mouthful of popcorn. "What we all need is some downtime. Downtime leads to increased productivity, so we have to have fun." He leaped to his feet, grinning. "And the best way to have fun... is for us to go to the club."

Barry's face winced into a disbelieving smile, but Cisco would not be deterred. "Am I right, Team?" he asked, grinning. "Let's get movin'!" Barry shook his head. "No, but, seriously," he said. "We need a break."

He was about to refuse, but Caitlin poked into the conversation. "You know, I think Cisco's right. And if I'm saying we need a break, you know it's serious."

Barry sent her one of his adorable grins, and let out a sigh. "Okay, alright. Let's... go out tonight."

"At least make it age-appropriate," Peter says as Cisco runs off. "I already went through my fake ID stage."

"Fake ID?" Bobby asks in shock.

'Yeah...but it did take that Seven-11 a while to realize I was a minor," Peter said with a chuckle. "May and Ben were so mad."

"Oh yeah," said Jesse, peeking over Peter's shoulder and smiling brightly. Turning to her father, she asked, "Can I go?"

"No," Wells said flatly and strode out of the room.

Jesse rolled her eyes and flashed a smile at Barry. "Give me a little time. I'm coming with you, whether he knows it or not."

"I'll see if MJ wants to join us, maybe bring in Gwen and Harry," Peter said as he walked out into the halls. "See if we could make it into a celebration for the engagement."

She ran out after her dad, leaving Cisco to expertly take his leave as well. Barry leaned over Caitlin's desk, pecking her lips with a smile.

"If you bring us to a karaoke bar," she said with a smile, feeling the tingles she had almost gotten used to exploding across her body as his lips met hers in a passionate kiss.

"I promise - no karaoke bars. I want to leave with my hearing intact."

She punched him in the shoulder and turned to leave with a smile. Barry caught her arm, suddenly serious. "Hey... I know we haven't had much time to... you know, celebrate. But I promise—we will. And we have to figure out our colors, right? For the wedding."

She said simply, "Red. Obvious."

"Perfect," Barry responded with a smile. "Absolutely perfect."


The place Barry ended up picking was loud and flashy, and it was filled with dancing people and couples making out. Caitlin was wearing a long, low-cut, slinky black dress, and she was glad that she hadn't gone with anything more flashy. If any guys tried hitting on her tonight, she supposed she would just have to casually hold up her hand—and her ring.

Poor Cisco was next to a couple shamelessly making out as they sat at the bar. He kept moving closer to Jesse to get away from them, who in turn shifted closer to Caitlin to give him room. By the time they had ordered their drinks, she was practically pressed against Barry, which wasn't the worst place to be, honestly.

Jesse seemed remarkably comfortable (minus the awkward moments when her meta-watch would beep every time Barry and the others went near it) in a messy bar, as though she were used to hanging out there; Caitlin had the feeling that she was used to sneaking out for drinks and partying on a regular basis. Still, she smiled. "I'm glad you came, Jesse. Even if this place is... less than ideal."

Jesse smiled happily at her, pleased to be welcomed. When they all had their drinks, Barry and Caitlin even made sure there was no alcohol smell on the kids' drinks, they raised them in a toast.

"Toast?" they each said as they held their glasses up. Cisco grinned. "To the soon-to-be Snow-Allens!" he exclaimed.

Barry laughed. "Snow-Allens, huh? Not Allen-Snows?"

"That sounds terrible," Peter commented.

"Yeah, sounds like a backward message." Peter nodded.

"So, you go by Allen or Parker when you get married?" Barry dared his brother. "Or will it be Parker-Watson?"

"Allen-Watson doesn't sound right," Gwen added.

"I'm not sure, but that's a problem for the future," Peter stated.

"Far future." MJ agreed.

"Ten bucks they're engaged by the time they enter college," Miles said to Bobby.

"I will take that action," Bobby said as they shook on it.

Nobody argued with that, and shot glasses were clinked all around. Jesse was about to down hers, but Barry gave her a look and moved her hand back down to the table.

"Ah ah ah! I'm sorry, Miss Underage, but none of us plan on getting murdered by your father." Barry warned her.

"Oh, whatever, he's all talk." Jesse protested.

"Mmhm." Barry tipped back his glass, not budging.

Two familiar people pushed through the crowd, and Iris and Wally made their way over to the bar. "Yo, hey guys, what's up?" Iris called.

"I'm glad you could make it," Barry said. "What's up, Wally?"

"Hey," he said awkwardly, glancing around. "Uh, interesting choice of venue, with the tic-tac-toe theme. Cool."

"Cisco picked it," Barry said, at the same moment as Cisco accused him. "It was Barry's idea."

Cisco gave him a look. "Bro?"

"I, um... Yeah, I picked it." Barry gave an adorable grimace-smile, and Caitlin tried to contain her laughter. "I don't get out much, and I wanted something that would be okay for Peter and his friends, and it had four stars on Yelp, so..."

"Okay, fair enough," Wally said, shaking his head.

"So... who's this?" Jesse asked, and Caitlin could see her eyeing Wally up and down. This time she couldn't hold back her grin.

"Uh, this is Wally! He's my... foster... step... adopted... my new... this is Wally, my new friend. Wally, this is Jesse." Over the girl's head, Barry sent Caitlin a wince. She rolled her eyes.

"Uh, hi." Jesse breathed, reaching up a hand to tuck her hair behind her ear.

MJ leaned over to Peter and whispered, "I bet they'll become a thing."

"Ten bucks," Peter said as he took that dare.

As soon as it brushed close to Barry, the alert panged off. "Sorry."

"Hey," Wally replied, grinning at her. "So, uh, Jesse, are you new in town?"

"Uh, yeah!" Jesse said, shooting a glance at Caitlin and Cisco for backup if needed. Cisco shrugged.

Wally nodded. "Yeah, me too." He looked at her curiously. "You from far away?"

Jesse was successful in brushing her hair back this time. "Like you wouldn't believe," she said. Her watch pinged again, and her jaw clenched in annoyance. "Ah, would you just excuse me, I need to go...powder my watch." She was already moving out of the group.

Well, with that, I'm gonna drag my boyfriend here off to dance," MJ said as she grabbed Peter and dragged him unwillingly.

"Wait, what? No, I don't dance," Peter said as he left with her.

When they left, Bobby smiled and looked at Angelica. "So, do people dance differently on Earth-2?"

"Not different, just better," Angelica dared with a grin.

"Oh, you're so on." Bobby dares as he walks off and Angelica followed.

Harry looked at Gwen and noticed how she eyed Peter and MJ starting to dance; if that's what you could call it.

Harry tried to muster his courage enough to ask. "Uh, what do you say? Wanna dance?"

Gwen smiled at how nervous he was and nodded. "Sure." She then grabbed his hand and dragged him to the dance floor.

Caitlin and Barry ended up watching from the sidelines as they enjoyed watching the kids act like...kids for the first time in months. They never had a chance to just relax and be themselves. All of their lives basically changed overnight when the Accelerator blew, and it turned into one crazy thing after another. But they easily saw that dancing wasn't one of Peter's strong suits when they basically watched him swaying around and trying to get to the beat. MJ was helping to try and give him pointers, seeing as she's more of a dancer than Peter.

"Oh, man..." Caitlin said, laughing at her fiancé's brother. "Promise me, when we get married, that we won't do that dance at our wedding."

Barry laughed outright, sending the young couple a thumbs up when they gave a wave. "I can promise you that. I do not dance that bad."

She rested her head on his shoulder, and he kissed the top of her head. "I know we haven't had much of a chance to talk about the wedding- and honestly, that's my fault."

"Mmhmm." Caitlin agreed, smiling. "That is true."

He nudged her. "Hey, I'm trying to apologize here!"

"I know." Caitlin grinned. "It's lovely."

He laughed, wrapping his arm around her. "I love you."

"Love you, too," Caitlin said as she rested her head on his shoulder.

They both glanced up, a familiar sound of speeding lightning and flashes of light filling the bar. Peter's senses alerted him that something was coming, causing him to stop dancing and look around. Barry's eyebrows shot up when he heard the flash and he glanced at his fiancée, shocked. People all around were being pushed to the ground, knocked over by a force only accompanied by shoots of lightning. The music buzzed to a stop as people began to scream, and in seconds, the bartender was unconscious, and all the money from the register had disappeared.

"What was that?"

"It was the Flash!"

"My wallet's gone," Iris said as she walked over to Barry.

Peter and MJ approached her as she said, "Someone took my purse."

That got him moving, and he was off and running after the quickly disappearing streak of light. The speedster moved impossibly fast, but when Barry was able to catch up and look over, he could clearly see that it was a woman. Then she glanced back at him, turned her face away, and ran even faster.

He skidded to a stop eventually, hands on his knees and gasping for air. By this point, the female speedster was nowhere to be seen; only a tiny little speck of light leaving burst streetlights and blaring car alarms in her wake.

"Now who the hell are you?" Barry wonders.


Then when that happened, someone had gotten a photo of the attacker, and it looked exactly like Barry. So that meant people were going to start believing that Flash had gone crazy.

"I mean, where did this new Speedster even come from?" Barry wonders.

"All I know is this person made 60 smackeroos off me." Cisco was angry to say. "Ridiculous."

"Maybe it's another one of Zoom's leftover henchmen." Miles offered.

"No, I've never found any other reports of Speedsters other than Zoom." Angelica debunked that theory. "I'd know."

"Not to mention that we closed the breaches," Cisco said. "So, this would have to be an older speedster."

"The only other way to become a speedster is through a particle accelerator explosion," Barry replied.

"Okay, but why make yourself known now?" Cisco asks.

"Maybe learning about their skills?" Peter offered. "Spider-Woman did the same."

"But our scanners or satellites would have alerted us if that was the case." Cisco debunked his theory.

"I'm not saying that it makes any sense, but that's the only way to become a speedster," Barry added.

Bobby looked around and saw Caitlin's face. "Uh, Caity, why the mysterious face?" Bobby wonders what's wrong.

That was when everyone looked over and noticed her face. "There's something I need to show you guys."


It seemed as if while the boys were fighting Vandal Savage and meeting the JSA, she was working on something that would give someone speed. They followed her down to the vault where she kept the serum locked up. There was one vial of red liquid remaining, and she took it out, turning around slowly to face them.

"It's called Velocity 9." She explained, not able to look Barry in the eye.

"Ooh! Sexy name," Cisco commented, trying to break the tension. "What is it?"

"It's a performance-enhancing speed drug," Caitlin explained as she walked back into the cortex. "We were working on it while you guys were at Star City trying to stop Savage."

"What?" Barry gave her a look, one that was a little confused and a lot hurt. "How could you not tell me this?"

And there it was. The million-dollar question. Caitlin swallowed the guilty lump in her throat and set the Velocity 9 down on the table. "I promised Jay I wouldn't."

"Promised Jay..." Barry wasn't sure he was following. "what? Why?"

Caitlin glanced up, as did everyone else when Wells stepped into the room. "Because," he said. "Jay knew how dangerous this drug was. I should know, Barry; Snow and I worked on it together."

Barry clenched his jaw, giving them both a disbelieving look. "Guys, I've been busting my butt out there. Pushing myself to the limit. Trying to be better- trying to be faster, and your telling me that there's been something this whole time that could help me?!" His voice had raised to a shout by the end of his sentence, and Caitlin looked at her feet, fighting tears. "This could have helped stop Zoom. It could have helped me save Earth 2 Joe. Save Jay."

"Jay was sick." Caitlin croaked out, her lower lip wobbling. "The drug he took to regain his speed also caused cellular degeneration. It was killing him. I tried to help, I tried to find a cure, but all the effects were just temporary. The V-9 is deadly."

"Why not tell me this?" Barry asked, his voice calmer was still angry. "Why keep me in the dark."

"I can't have that happen to your, Barry." Caitlin sniffled, squeezing her eyes shut. "I can't."

"Caitlin-" Cisco placed his hand on her shoulder, and suddenly, his face went blank.

Caitlin gave him a look and pulled away, looking at Barry pleadingly. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have hidden it from you. But I just... I knew that if I kept it secret, there'd be no possibility for you to ever even have the temptation of trying it."

His eyes dropped and Caitlin rubbed at her eyes.

It didn't seem she was forgiven.

Bobby and Peter both looked at one another, seeming they both have the same idea and split. Peter went after Barry while Bobby looked over to Caitlin.

"So, you had an eventful time when we were in Star City," Bobby commented. Caitlin scoffed and wiped the tears. "You only did what you thought was best, you can't blame yourself for that."

"Barry seems to." Caitlin scoffed.

"Give Peter five minutes, you'll have your fiancé coming and pleading for forgiveness," Bobby promises her. "But in all honesty. You kept the guy you love from using...basically performance-enhancing substances. That's literally something that he should be thankful for. If he got addicted to it or became sick like Jay, there's no way you would have forgiven yourself."

Caitlin chuckled. "How'd you get so good at reading people?"

"Reading people?" Bobby couldn't help but laugh. "Caity, I've lived with you for almost three years now. I know you. If I didn't, then I shouldn't be calling you my family."

Caitlin chuckled and pulled Bobby in for a hug. "Taking you in was one of the best things I've ever done."

Bobby chuckled. "I have to agree."

Barry was pacing in the hallway when Peter came across him. "You know, we need to expand places to think if you are gonna keep doing this."

"Doing what?" Barry asks.

"Weird hallway conversations we always end up having. I promise I don't skip leg day." Peter stated.

"You do leg day?" Barry asks.

"Not all of us can be speedsters," Peter stated. But he got serious and got to the matter at hand. "Look, what you said back there, you have to talk it out with her."

"Pete, we've been trying to stop Zoom this entire time, and now she tells me there was a way I could have evened the playing field against these threats. I could have been fast enough to stop him from killing Jay. I could have helped stop Hobgoblin."

"Yeah, at what cost?" Peter asked him. "You become some Velocity junkie? Hooked on something that makes you faster and eventually kills you? Jay was dying with or without the whole Zoom impaling him in the chest. There's nothing you could have done to save him. I know it sounds kind of hypocritical coming from someone who got their powers through a super-enhanced spider, but I got lucky with getting powers rather than death." He then leaned against the wall and sighed. An old memory came into his mind he hadn't thought of in years. "You know the saying, 'an eye for an eye and the world goes blind'? Well, Ben had his own saying. 'If you try to rig a game that's already rigged, you're no better than the ones who rigged it'. Villains don't play by the rules, but if we compromise our integrity to go down to their level, then the enemies win. I learned that when I chose to help Flint, rather than kill him. Caitlin did all she could because she wanted to keep you alive and healthy. She's not just your girlfriend/fiancée, she's also a doctor. She took an oath to not let you take anything that could do you harm. Think about that."

Barry took into account what his brother had said when the alarms went off, indicating their evil speedster was back. Barry knew he needed to listen to his brother and apologize to Caitlin later. But he needed to try and stop this speedster, so he raced off.


Barry didn't exactly have the best encounter with this speedster the fight was over in like two seconds. It wasn't even a fight, Barry basically ended up being tripped as he tried to catch them. But when he was knocked out of the fight, he did manage to get a good look at the Speedster. The odd thing was it was not only a woman, but her outfit was almost identical to his own.

"A lady speedster." Cisco let out a gleeful sigh, hands behind his next. "It only took two years, but we finally got one. A lady speedster!" He strode up the steps and into Caitlin's lab where Caitlin was patching Barry up were sitting. "Here's a question for you- purely scientific. Was she good-looking?"

Joe laughed.

Barry rolled his eyes. "Uh, I was a little busy getting my butt handed to me, so I didn't really notice."

"Right, right, right." Cisco nodded vigorously. "But you know, next time? For science?"

"Next time she punches me in the face, I'll be sure to get her number," Barry said sarcastically.

He winced as Caitlin pressed her gauze in the center of his cheek, and gently lowered her wrist away, sending him a quick smile. He hoped against hope that that meant he was (at least starting to be) forgiven.

"There you go," Cisco said, looking pleased.

"The question remains- who is she?" Joe asked from where he was leaning against the wall.

"I have no idea." Barry sighed, standing up and leading everybody out of the room.

"What if we used facial recognition?" Harry suggested.

"She had a mask on." Barry sighed, standing up and moving slowly down the stairs.

"What was her suit like?" Cisco asked.

Caitlin sent him a glare, trying to keep him on track. "Hey."

"It's a legitimate question!" Cisco defended.

"It is, actually." Wells agreed. "How was her suit made?"

Barry leaned against the desk. "It was good- it was very good. It was like mine... it was made by someone who understands the needs of a speedster."

"So that would be someone who has access to tech and a lab," Peter said thoughtfully as he thought of the labs that had that tech. "Or maybe she got it where you got my old suit." He then eyed Gwen with a small suspicious look. "Where did you get that?"

"Let's say that I have contacts you don't," Gwen said smugly.

"Think they could get me a new suit?" Bobby asks. "My jacket and everything get old after a while."

"Not to mention the most stealthy," Angelica added.

"Hey, your guy wore nothing but underpants, mine is at least a step up from that," Bobby stated as he recalled what his Earth-2 counterpart wore.

"Dude, say the word, I'll make you a lineup of suits." Cisco offered him.

"Guys, can we get back to the problem at hand?" MJ asks the group. "We have a rogue speedster."

Caitlin's stomach sank when a thought came into her mind. "Oh no. I'm having a very bad thought." She then walked to the computers and showed them the V-9 formula. "When I designed V-9 I was having trouble reformatting the extracellular matrix, so I called a colleague of mine who works at Mercury Labs for some assistance." She explained to the group, pulling up a few images of DNA strands and one of Eliza. "Eliza Harmon."

"She knows how to make this speed drug?" Barry asked, eyebrows raised, unimpressed.

Caitlin whipped around. "No! I followed the protocols on information compartmentalization and only gave her 3 of the 8 components necessary for V-9 structure."

"Okay, so she didn't have the full recipe." Barry reiterated.


Later on, they took Eliza off of their suspect list, and they were trying to try and find a new area to look down. But as they were talking, Peter sensed something was wrong, getting everyone to turn and notice that look. Miles even felt his head buzzing, still not quite understanding how his senses work.

"Oh, god, I know that look," Gwen said in worry.

"Something's coming!" Bobby immediately iced up and got prepared to fight.

Everyone was confused when sparks start flying and a flash of lightning brings Barry into the pipeline. Then all of a sudden whatever it was punches Joe across the room and takes his gun. Peter tries fighting her, but she's faster this time and even his senses couldn't find her in time when she threw him across the room and smacked into the wall. Bobby was trying to get in a shot, but he was shot in the back, causing him to fall back and groan. Luckily his healing protected him, but it still hurt to shatter his ice form. Angelica tried to hit her by throwing fireball after fireball, doing more damage than good. In the end, she was smacked in the back of the head and dropped unconscious.

MJ and Gwen froze and didn't even try to attempt anything when Eliza grabbed MJ by the neck and wrapped her arm around it. Gwen looked around and wondered where the hell Miles disappeared to. There was no sign of him anywhere, which only made her more worried about what happened to him.

"What do you want?" Wells asks, seeing nobody left to stop her.

"Where's the V-9, Caity?" Eliza asks Caitlin, MJ whimpering in her grasp.

"Eliza, you have to stop this." Caitlin pleads to her.

"Eliza's not here right now. My name's Trajectory." Eliza tells them, pushing the gun against MJ's head.

"Why do the crazies always have to name themselves?" Cisco asks Harry, who only now considered that.

"Look, Elisa, V-9 is dangerous, okay? It's killing you." Caitlin tries warning her, but she's not listening. "It made a friend of mine sick, and he already had the Speedforce in him."

"You are boring me to death. Hand over the V," Eliza tells them, squeezing MJ's neck. "Or this pretty little redhead-"

Then out of nowhere, there was a strand of webbing attached to her gun and the hand that was holding MJ. Then they were both yanked, causing Eliza to lose balance and there to be a sudden surge of electricity coming from somewhere. When Eliza was struck, she was flown across the room and into the container of V-9.

"What the hell?" Joe asks. "Who did that?"

"Uh..." Miles' voice filled the air.

"Miles?" Gwen asks as she looked around.

"Miles, where are you?" Cisco asks as he also looked around.

"What do you mean? I am right in front of you." Miles said, only for Cisco to grow even more confused when he saw nothing. Cisco raised his hand and reached out, causing there to be a cry of pain when he poked something. "Ah! You just poked me in the eye!"

"I...what?" Cisco was only getting lost.

"Wait, are you invisible?" MJ asks in shock.

"What?" Peter asks as he groaned. He started to climb back onto his feet. "You're telling me he got electricity and invisibility? Did I get stuck with a dud spider? Why does he get all these cool powers?"

"Oh, shut up." Angelica groaned as she got back up, rubbing her head. "Where is she?"

"Uh..." Harry pointed to the container.

Eliza had already injected herself with the last of the V-9 that they had. "Thanks for the fix-up."

Then before they could stop her, Eliza sped off and escaped. Cisco quickly deactivated Barry's cell, and he quickly chased after her.


Barry was speeding through the streets as he was chasing after Eliza. They were trying to one-up the other, which was able to work against Barry trying to outrun him. But Barry was faster and more equipped with his powers, so he was able to get away faster. But they basically ended up like bumper cars just smacking against one another.

Then came the time Barry decided to just go for it and tackled Eliza. They bounced along the pavement, slamming into an electrical box. Barry was on his feet first, panting and watching Eliza struggle to stand.

He let out a heavy, relieved sigh. "It's over, Eliza."

"It is never. Over." Eliza growled, forcing herself up on her knees. She pulled out a syringe and held it over her leg, ready to inject the last of the V-9 into herself.

"Wait, hey!" Barry called, holding out his hand in a soothing fashion. "Stop doing this to yourself! You don't actually want to hurt anyone."

"You don't know anything-" Eliza hissed, chest heaving. "About me."

"No." Barry shook his head. "I know you're not a bad person. This is the V-9 in your system. I also know what it feels like to want to be the best, and you feel like there's not enough time to accomplish things the right way, but... it's a cop-out. And this is killing you!"

His voice broke, watching the struggle in her face. "Look at yourself, Eliza; you're not well. Let us help you. Please."

There was a long moment of intense silence. Then Eliza looked away, slamming the needle into her leg.

Barry shut his eyes, defeat flooding him as Eliza fell to her hands and knees, groaning, and then got to her feet.

She let out a sigh. "That is all the help I need. How does it feel to know that I am faster than you will ever be?"

She shrugged, "See you around."

As she flashed off, Barry frowned. "Her lightning." He said. "It's turning blue."

In a matter of seconds, Eliza turned completely blue. Then her entire body began to disintegrate and with a scream of agony, the female speedster turned into nothing but a pile of sparking suit pieces everywhere.


Barry brings the suit to Star Labs while they're trying to figure out what happened to her. Caitlin and Barry also finally had that talk and he saw the dangers of the V-9 and was glad Caitlin never told him about it before. Wells came back after looking for Jesse, who seemed to have just vanished.

"You find Jesse?" May asked as Wells walked into the room, strapping a watch to his wrist.

"She went out," Wells said.

"So she just evaporated by running too fast?" Gwen asks, not understanding how that works.

"Yeah, even I am a little lost. And I have been around you guys for a while." Harry added.

Caitlin nodded. "Looks like cellular degeneration. Just like Jay's."

"Jay warned us V-9 was dangerous," Joe said in agreement. "At least now we know why."

"Looks like cellular degeneration. This might be why Jay kept warning about how dangerous it is." Caitlin explains to them.

Peter looks and sees Barry is confused. "Barry, you okay?" He asks Barry.

"It's just before Eliza disappeared, her lightning, turned blue," Barry says and that gets them more confused.

"Like Zoom's?" Cisco asks him. "Could be an effect of the V-9."

"But Jay took V-9 to save Wells, he was never blue," Caitlin commented.

"What if V-9 is what turns your lightning blue?" Barry made the group question the idea. "That could explain why Zoom is much faster than me"

"If that's true, then that means he's sick, right?" Cisco asks.

"He's dying." Miles was putting it together.

So was Wells. "That's why he wants your speed. He's dying and he needs a cure."

All of a sudden, every single piece clicked into place. Barry felt his heart sink. "Same as Jay."

Caitlin shook her head. "No." She breathed.

Angelica mirrored the action, disbelieving. "Jay? No. He- He died right in front of us. Zoom killed him right in front of us. He was a hero in our world for years."

"We have dealt with people pretending to be good before," Bobby commented, remembering Goblin.

"I guess there's one way to find out," Wells said. He turned his gaze on Cisco.

"I guess now would be a good time to tell you all I've been vibing Zoom," Cisco said in a soft voice.

That got the attention of the entire room.

"What?" Harry asked. "For how long?"

"It started when we closed the last breach." Cisco sighed. His eyes slipped to the display case that held Jay's helmet. "And every time it's happened I've been near that thing."

Suddenly filled with rage, Barry jolted to his feet and smashed through the glass of the case. He yanked out the helmet and held it out to Cisco. "We need to know."

Cisco took the helmet, and his whole body went rigid. When he turned back around, his face was drawn.

"I saw Jay." He said in a soft voice. "He's Zoom."

Barry was mad by this, angered that he fell for the same trick twice. He sped off, leaving everyone to cry out his name. Barry sped across the city until he reached the same waterfront from a few days ago. He relinquished his mask, screaming as loud as he possibly could.


(A/N) Okay, originally, I wanted this chapter to be what introduced Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Have Pietro be the speedster, while Wanda used her powers to make everyone believe it's Flash and to fight the other heroes (while Miles would learn of his invisibility after finishing her off). But I realized that I needed Trajectory to help the team learn who Zoom is. If I had Peter learn who he was similar to "Book 2", then things could have maybe gone differently.

But this Peter isn't as skilled or trained as his "Book 2" counterpart, so that wasn't going to work out well (Not to mention that he was fighting Hobgoblin at the time). But that certainly doesn't mean I can't use that plotline later down the line. Maybe something to do with Flashpoint could bring them in? I don't know, just want you all to know there was a different plan for this chapter, but the story needed to happen this way to help the continuity.

"It's a cannon event." - Miguel